Cold-welding for gold

 

Large-scale fabrication of highly ordered gold nanochannel monolayers has been demonstrated by scientists in Japan. Yingpu Bi and Jinhua Ye fron the National Institute for Materials Science, in Tsukuba, have used the galvanic replacement reaction over aligned silver nanowire arrays, which can be employed as a simple and powerful cold-welding technique to make these gold nanochannels.

Why not read the article today and blog your thoughts below? Published in ChemComm, this communication is free to access until the 8th October.

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